4 Ways to NOT Do Registration at Your Fall Festival (and one good one)
Kidmin, Events, Holidays, Administration David Reneau Kidmin, Events, Holidays, Administration David Reneau

4 Ways to NOT Do Registration at Your Fall Festival (and one good one)

It’s Fall, and that means it’s time for your fall festival, trunk or treat, Holy Ghost Weeny Roast or whatever you call the event you do this time of year.

This is a unique event because a lot of people who may not come to your church may come to your campus for the very first time.

Unlike events like VBS or Egg Hunt, fall festivals offer a specific registration challenge.

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How to Create A Volunteer Job Description
NextGen, Administration, Volunteers, Resources David Reneau NextGen, Administration, Volunteers, Resources David Reneau

How to Create A Volunteer Job Description

Let’s imagine that through very little work of your own you had 30 new volunteers show up in your ministry on the same day. Do you know where you’d put them? Do you know what job you’d give them to do? How would you onboard them to make sure they understand the mission and vision of your ministry?

Asking these kinds of questions helps you see the holes in your ministry. And what you need to work on to get to that next level.

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5 Steps to Building Your Volunteer Structure for Growth
NextGen, Volunteers, Administration, Resources David Reneau NextGen, Volunteers, Administration, Resources David Reneau

5 Steps to Building Your Volunteer Structure for Growth

I recently saw a post on a Facebook group asking how many volunteers they need for 30-40 kids. It was really a question about ratios, which are very important, but having the correct room ratio may not be enough when thinking about the right number of volunteers.

I’ve written about this before, but when I first started in kidmin, you could have called my Sunday morning service the David Reneau show.

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How to Divide Your Small Groups
NextGen, Administration, Service Planning David Reneau NextGen, Administration, Service Planning David Reneau

How to Divide Your Small Groups

If you’ve been doing small groups in your kids service for any length of time, you may be asking what is the best way to split the kids up? Do we do it by grade? Gender? Favorite candy? Random?

The truth is there is no perfect answer and depending on the size of your ministry and how many kids show up per service the answer will be different.

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5 Numbers You Should Track in Your Ministry and Why
NextGen, Administration, Resources David Reneau NextGen, Administration, Resources David Reneau

5 Numbers You Should Track in Your Ministry and Why

I’ve heard business entrepreneurs say that you have to know your numbers. The same is true with your ministry. How many attended this week? Last week? How many volunteers? First time guests? Baptisms? Small Groups?

If you don’t track it, and by tracking, I mean write it down in a spreadsheet, you’re losing out on valuable information that can help you keep your ministry healthy and growing.

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How to Order T-shirts: Part 3
NextGen, Administration, Events, Marketing, Resources David Reneau NextGen, Administration, Events, Marketing, Resources David Reneau

How to Order T-shirts: Part 3

The day is finally here. Your event is coming up and you now have several boxes full of your brand-spanking-new shirts. But how do you get them out to your people? How do you make sure they get the right sizes? What happens if they ordered the wrong size?

If you’re going to sell them, how much should you charge? Do you have to keep inventory?

It’s a lot to think about. There are no perfect systems out there, but these are some things I do to get them out to the right people at the right time, even if I’m selling them.

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How to Order T-shirts: Part 2

How to Order T-shirts: Part 2

In this post I’ll answer the question how many shirts should I buy?

In a perfect world, you’d have every participant’s shirt size weeks in advance of your event so you can order the exact right amount and eliminate waste or worse, run out of a particular size. But because of Adam and Eve’s failure we don’t live a perfect world, and now we have to guess.

Thanks a lot guys.

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How to Order T-Shirts: Part 1

How to Order T-Shirts: Part 1

Let's do T-shirts!

That’s a question that somehow got skipped in seminary. Nowhere in all my studies did anyone tell me how to design, order, and then sell/give-away t-shirts and somehow in my ministry experience I find myself having to do it at least once a year.

Over the years, I’ve developed some strategies to help me be successful and get the kind of shirts everyone loves.

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A Social Media Strategy for Kidmin
Marketing, Administration, Kidmin David Reneau Marketing, Administration, Kidmin David Reneau

A Social Media Strategy for Kidmin

I’ve been posting and leading the social media for the churches I’ve worked for almost as long as I’ve been a kid’s pastor. For the past 13 years, I’ve moved with the changes to Facebook and Instagram. Established Twitter accounts and even explored Snap Chat and Marco Polo.

Creating daily or even weekly content for all of these platforms can be exhausting and many of these platforms change everything seemingly on a whim. It can be tough to keep up.

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5 Things I learned from a Parent Survey
Administration, Leadership, Events, Kidmin David Reneau Administration, Leadership, Events, Kidmin David Reneau

5 Things I learned from a Parent Survey

A few months ago, I was challenged by the folks at Orange to do a parent survey to find out how the children's ministry is connecting and partnering with parents.  Through their product Weekly, they made it super simple by giving all the necessary templates to create my survey in Survey Monkey and launch it out to my parents.

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